CSPO Certified (2025): Complete Guide to Get Certified

To understand the CSPO Role first you need to understand who a Product Owner is.

So, who is a product owner?

Well, you can think of Product Owners as a lawyer for their customers, it is because they embody the customer side of the project.  

In other words, A product owner is a member of a scrum team, whose duty is to listen to the consumers, or at least to what they have to say, as well as transform the customers’ requirements into the overall benefit of everyone involved in a certain project.

How to become a Certified Scrum Product Owner?

To become a Certified Scrum Product Owner the first step you need to take is to enroll in a REP training institute.

Fulfil the prerequisites of the Certified Scrum Master Training course (CSPO course).

Familiarize yourself with and practice the essential skills of a Product Owner using scrum framework and achieve a CSPO certification to be called as a CSPO.

Upon your CSPO course completion, log on to the Scrum Alliance website and download your CSPO certification.

NOTE: There is no exam or test requirement to achieve your CSPO certification.

Responsibility of Product Owner:

• Defining user stories and transforming them into a product vision
• Creating and managing a product backlog
• Bridging the gap between the product developers and stakeholders 
• Taking trade-offs decisions
• Order and scope decision-making
• Enhancing the product value
• Keeping customers' and stakeholders' requirements/needs at the center of every project
• Doing market research and understanding emerging trends and the latest technologies that may lead to or impact the success of products.
• Monitoring and evaluating product development cycle’s each phase.
   

To get a CSPO® certification, it is not mandatory to look for any specific examination for which one has to prepare. However, you don’t escape the requirement of learning the Scrum process framework before you are awarded the certificate. This includes the identification of Scrum roles as well as how the process of the organization flows or functions, among other things.

You can be assured that all the required steps that is required for CSPO certification process is mentioned below:
 

Step 1: Select a REP Training Provider
The first process in getting a Certified Scrum Product Owner is choosing and joining an institute which is an REP (Registered Education Provider) of Scrum Alliance.  

Step 2:  Explore Agile Manifesto and Scrum Guide
Studying the contents of the Scrum guide and Agile manifesto is not necessary before you take the CSPO course, but it will help you learn faster if you do so.

Step 3: Complete a Two-Day Certified Scrum Product Owner course 
In order to acieve a CSPO® certification, you are required to attend a minimum of a two day CSPO® course, which in actuality is a 16 hour course delivered by a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST®). The purpose of this course is to explain Scrum and to help you get the CSPO® certification.

Step 4: Recommendation by the CST 
After the two days training for CSPO®, the trainer(CST) will key in your details to the Scrum Alliance which is the awarding body for CSPO® certificate.

Step 5: Now Just Wait to Recieve a Few Details From Scrum Alliance 
After CST updates your details, you will receive an email from Scrum Alliance welcoming you to log in into your Scrum Alliance account to accept the CSPO® License.

Step 6: Agree to License Terms Offered by Scrum Alliance 
When you receive the welcome email enter by clicking on the link that is given to you and then change your password. You can then gain your license after you do this.

Step 7: Download Your CSPO Certificate 
The license is valid once you accept it, and you can then use the CSPO® certificate as you resume from your daily activities. This is valid for two years after which you will need to renew for certification.

And there you go– you are now a certified Scrum Product Owner! Congratulate yourself and get ready for the career boost.
 

CSPO training includes all the knowledge and skills needed for a product owner. It comprises education of the Scrum approach, the vision of the product, and management of its owners. It also instructs how to interface with Scrum groups and manage competing interests.

Areas considered under training for an effective CSPO:

• Product vision: Writing a product vision and planning product releases in increments.
• Stakeholder management: Best practices for stakeholder engagement and how to engage the stakeholders in a bid to look for business opportunities. 
• Collaboration: How we can collaborate with development teams and learning how to conduct backlog grooming sessions. 
• Decision making: The way, how to find a compromise between business values, technological requirements and utilizing needs 
• Release management: CSPO also needs to learn how to schedule releases and how to deal with complicated backlogs. 
• Product backlog: How to effectively identify and nurture the product backlog 
• Customer discovery: Information on customer discovery and validation. 
• Product economics: A methodology for product economics and how to get the most for a product

A Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification can improve your career in many ways, including:

1. Increased Job opportunities
CSPO certification does result to more job offers and better paid jobs.

2. Enhanced Leadership skills
The information on CSPO certification will be helpful to enhance your leadership qualities like deciding the important strategic directions and delivering the organizational value.

3. Collaboration and Better Communication 
Due to this, communication and collaboration can be said to be central elements in teamwork.
CSPO certification teaches understanding of the stakeholders and other member of the team and how to collaborate towards a specific end result.

4. Creates Agile mindset
That is why the CSPO certification can be valuable as it points to the right direction, promotes an agile approach with the teams which can result in successful projects.

5. Enhanced Product quality
CSPO certification may assist you in enhancing the body of knowledge establishing higher product quality and organization’s work culture.

6. Salary Boost
Certification through CSPO can enhance your remunerative capacity and skill set is transforming you into a viable employee.

7. Understanding Customers and Client Needs Better
I believe that the actual CSPO certification is useful because it gives one an ability to tune their head with a client’s needs.

8. Ownership Of Product 
The CSPO certification can allow you to own the product and lead the change to create business value.

9. Managing Product Backlogs
If you wish to know how you can define the product backlogs, then CSPO certification can be really useful for you.
 

CSPO certification is valid for only two years after which you need to earn SEUs and renewal cost to maintain your certification.

Ways of retaining your CSPO certification:

1.Earn and receive SEUs through events, webinars, reading, voluntary activities and other pertinent activities.
2.Go to official site of scrum alliance i.e. “scrumalliance.org” and enter a record of the SEUs that you have earned.
3.Pay the renewal fee of:

• $100 for an entry level certified scrum product owner or CSPO 
• $175 for an SAFe Advanced Level Certification of CSPO 
• $250 for a professional-level CSPO certification